Rarely you receive a script that you feel grateful to be part of: Sayani Gupta

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Sayani Gupta believes she has successfully straddled between mainstream and independent cinema but the actor says she is currently not picking any commercial movie due to paucity of time.

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The actor said she chooses meaty roles in independent films over less exciting mainstream offers.

“I have done Margarita with a Straw, Parched with Jagga Jasoos, Jolly LLB 2, Baar Baar Dekho. I have been able to balance. But in the last one and a half year, I did not have a single day off. I was doing Four More Shots, I did a British series and then I did two films. I had no time. You need to have time to say yes. I dont have the dates.

“I did Article 15 because one of my films got cancelled. In the commercial space in the last year, I havent got anything that is super exciting for me to do. I have said no to three big films that are yet to be released because the roles were not meaty,” Sayani told PTI in an interview here.

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After Mulk, Anubhav Sinha had offered Sayani a film – a farcical comedy, but things did not work out and then Article 15 happened.

“He liked my work in Jolly LLB 2 and since then we both have been wanting to work with each other for a while. Things were not working. Even this time when Article 15 came up I had a Bengali film already in my hand. But I got to know that the Bengali movie is not happening and my dates just freed up.”

According to Sayani, Anubhav was initially a bit apprehensive to cast her as a Dalit woman in the crime-drama, after her last outing as a glamorous girl in web-series Four More Shots.

The film, featuring Ayushmann Khurrana in the lead, is based on Article 15 of the Indian Constitution which prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth.

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Sayani believes Anubhav has presented an honest take on discrimination through the film.

“When I was reading the script, I couldnt put it down, I was crying, smiling, was overjoyed and very rarely you come across a script that you feel really grateful to be part of it. He had written the story with so much honesty and right intent.

“It is an entertaining investigative drama, which is funny, satirical, heartbreaking at some places. Read More – Source